Quotes by Women Authors

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults.... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will not last... But photos provide a false sense of security> like our flawed memory, they are guaranteed to fade.... We take photographs in order to remember, but it is in the nature of a photograph to forget.

Michelle Richmond

People do pretty ugly things to make themselves feel better, this I do know.

Mariah Fredericks

My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.

Suspense is torture... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads...

Katharine Susannah Prichard

If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

Jane nodded, and she mentally thanked the several-greats-grandmother who had decided she'd rather risk royal displeasure than give up a book.

I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down.

Jardine Libaire

I shall not tell your husband and you shall not tell my wife." Tell them what?" That you and I were outwitted by a ropma." That would be shamful." Girl, we could never live it down.

Woman, a pleasing but a short-lived flower,
Too soft for business and too weak for power:
A wife in bondage, or neglected maid:
Despised, if ugly; if she's fair, betrayed.

Half delirious, I slipped my hands around Whit's thick neck. The second Idid he got confident.His mouth moved over mine in a rough, unpracticed, awkward back-and-forth motion, so fast it was as if he was trying to create fire with our lips.

When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.

Rachel Gibson (writer)

We are the whirlwinds that winnow the West—
We scatter the wicked like straw!
We are the Nemeses, never at rest—
We are Justice, and Right, and the Law!

Margaret Ashmun

The law of cause and effect does not hide in the realm of the unexpected when intelligent beings go looking for it.

Gertrude Atherton

The difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.

Amy Stewart (writer)

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider.
Even a spider has the right to a mate.

For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.

You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.

Elizabeth Aston

Mothers know the difference between a broth and a consommé. And the difference between damask and chintz. And the difference between vinyl and Naugahyde. And the difference between a house and a home. And the difference between a romantic and a stalker. And the difference between a rock and a hard place.

Inverted heart,
becomes the testicles
of a man.